"Campbell White, of New York, was the first person to employ refrigerants for medical use. He reported his success in 1899, advocating liquid air for the treatment of a large range of conditions including lupus erythematosus, herpes zoster, chancroid, naevi, warts, varicose leg ulcers, carbuncles and epitheliomas He recognized the efficiency of liquid air in the treatment of carcinoma' and enthusiastically stated `I can truly say today that I believe that epithelioma, treated early in its existence by liquid air, will always be cured'. Whitehouse reviewed the effects of liquid air on normal skin, finding it to be especially useful for epitheliomata, lupus erythematosus and vascular naevi. He stated that liquid air `outranks some of the remedies on which we have placed great reliance'. He treated recurrences of epitheliomata after radiotherapy and found liquid air to be more successful than repeat radiotherapy."
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S M Cooper, and R P R Dawber, “The history of cryosurgery”, J R Soc Med, 2001 Apr; 94(4): 196–201.
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